Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Source: Twelfth Annual Report to the President of Antioch, 1848.
-- Horace Mann, (May 4 1796-1859), US educator, politician; He is considered the father of American public education; founder and president of Antioch College, 1852-59.